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A short history of the surveys performed under the Dominion lands system, 1869 to 1889

by: Dennis, John Stoughton younger, 1856-1938. (author)

Publication date: 1892

Topics: Explorers, Surveyors and Travellers--Surveys, Topographical, Canada--Description and travel, Land utilization--Laws, legislation, regulations, etc., Land use--Law and legislation, Sol, Utilisation du--Droit--Législation, Surveys, Governmental, Surveys, Levés, Surveys--History, Surveys--History, Levés--Histoire, 1889

Publisher: s.n. (Ottawa)

Collection: peel_print; peel; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto

Language: English

Item Size: 48.2M

Dennis, John Stoughton younger: 1856-1938. Son of John Stoughton Dennis (elder); civil engineer; to the West as a surveyor, 1872; served for four years as surveyor with HBC; commanded Dennis' Scouts during Saskatchewan Rebellion; inspector of surveys for Dominion government, 1887-1894; chief engineer with the irrigation branch, 1894-1902; deputy-commissioner of public works for the NWT, 1897-1902; became chief commissioner of CPR's Department of Colonization and Development, 1902; appointed assistant to the president of CPR, 1911; Director of Transportation and Intelligence for Canadian brigade in Siberia during First World War (Morgan, Canadian men and women of the time, 1912; Who's who in Canada, 1922; MacRae, History of the province of Alberta).